Mahatma Gandhi

Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

— Mahatma Gandhi

God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there…

— Mahatma Gandhi

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To know music is to transfer it to life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

— Mahatma Gandhi